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It is taking way too long. But there are reasons. (1) There is a limit on the amount of bonds that they can have bid out at a time. (2) they had to do a lot of
by Jesus_Jones 9y ago
It is taking way too long. But there are reasons. (1) There is a limit on the amount of bonds that they can have bid out at a time. (2) they had to do a lot of tunneling. (3) the next segment involves building over a floating bridge. Light rail over a floating bridge is non-trivial. I do wish they'd increase their ability to do simultaneous work though, I'll be dead before it gets near my house.
- lostmsu 9y agoFor 3), there was recently an article, that highest cost in US rail projects is buying land. 3 kinda offsets this.
- Jesus_Jones 9y agoBuilding rail on a non-fixed "floating bridge" is probably expensive too :-)
- djsumdog 9y agoIt will be the first floating bridge rail in the world. They've already built the test track, so so hopefully they have an accurate idea of how much the production segments will cost: https://vimeo.com/163631993 https://vimeo.com/163631993
- Jesus_Jones 9y agoReplying to my own note, the cost is controversial, and plenty of people don't want to spend money on infrastructure, or have endless arguments over we'll just use driverless cars, only spend money on roads, or only spend money on buses, etc. But somehow we managed to pass something here.